Terri's Day and nation's independence protects life culture

Renew America ^ | May 29, 2006 | Kevin Fobbs

[KevinNuPac]

Terri's Day and nation's independence protects life culture

Kevin Fobbs May 29, 2006

America's Culture of Life is truly the legacy of one woman whose death forever changed our nation because of actions that were not in her hands but in those of her husband and his lawyers. Yet for millions of Americans we will forever link our own celebration of our nation's independence to the courage of the Schindler family to go forward past the tragedy, past the personal sorrow, past the searing anguish to help America draw a distinct line in the sand, to issue a clarion call to America.

Our 4th of July is coming... Our Culture of Life Independence Day is on its way. Our month of Independence is a message that March 31st (Terri's Day) will signal, that July 4th will signal... and that the month of July will signal to defend the Culture of Life before we lose it forever.

When we talked with our family members or even our neighbors or our friends we may have spent but a moment reflecting upon why we are even gathered on a Memorial Day afternoon. Do we think about the sacrifice of our soldiers and of their families? Do we think about the long goodbyes which are never long enough... as the military families send their loved ones to war, to battle, to stand firm for our freedoms... for our life... for our nation and its values of faith?

How does Terri Schiavo and her legacy tie into this? Terri's legacy and Terri's Day is a representation of a right to live, and freedom to have the liberty to not have it compromised away, devalued by inconvenience, or litigated away by judges who celebrate a culture of death that would rob life from the womb, steal life from a hospital or hospice bed, and destroy and shatter a family's love for a daughter, a sister and aunt who was given a gift from God, but had it separated from her as easily as an ant would have its life take by an uncaring shoe... extinguished forever.

The families who send their loved ones off to war have to wonder as well, does America value their sacrifice? The families of the military have to wonder just where does its society draw the line on its values? A soldier who is in battle in Iraq or Afghanistan has to wonder if a Florida judge can take away the life of an innocent, what is the measure of his life? Would a judge in America suddenly decide that if he were injured, if he had to sacrifice a limb that the protesters outside his hospital bed would have more rights than he would or his family? Would this soldier have to wonder that if he or his fellow soldier were killed in battle, that upon their return that the protesters who would stand outside of his funeral... have more rights to be protected than the rights his family would have to a military burial with honor?

You see, the Culture of Life is about Terri Schiavo, because Americans now have to examine the life of our culture itself. We have to wonder if we as a nation of Christians and of a nation of faith and of a nation of compassion would allow for a state to murder an innocent woman and strip her family of their loved one then as a nation would we allow America to have other symbols of life, of our nation to be peeled away as well, all in open sight and in plain view of a dispassionate nation?

What does our American Culture mean if we allow millions of illegal aliens to literally browbeat us into submission by demanding that because they have stolen across our borders, demanded and received protection from local law enforcement in numerous cities throughout the U. S., obtained free or reduced educational opportunities by state public colleges that our own children could not qualify to receive the same financial aid assistance for. Are we that defenseless to let illegals strip our state coffers of housing assistance for loans and mortgages when tens of thousands in almost every state in America have legal citizens who are homeless, impoverished, or working poor or middle class Americans who need similar assistance but cannot receive it. And they are legal! They are citizens! They are Americans.

What is so wrong about our nation when we are so ready to compromise our freedoms, our culture's life, the life of an innocent and the taking of any life is the taking of our own children's life and their child's. And with each successive generation the nation and its life, its values, its traditions, and its language will disappear because we as Americans were too preoccupied — too narrow — to see that an illegal alien was taking your child's education, that a crusading death culture judge was preparing a bed, a room, a legal precedent to take your child, grandchild or sister or parent.

That is why I have stayed my course to defend the Culture of Life and to ask my fellow Americans to begin to understand that as Terri Schiavo's life was slowly ebbing from her body and as her mother Mary, father Bob, sister Suzanne, and brother Bobby waited in the Florida early morning air on March 31st, 2005, America was having part of its soul ebb away as well.

What will it take to spark an interest, a concern, and a passion for protecting one's own life? Some may say that it would take a clear and present danger — like tanks rolling down your neighborhood street or another 9/11 that strikes at the heart of America. Do we have the convenience to wait? Do we wait until a state legislature in Maine or California or Delaware or Ohio or Illinois decides that your mother's decision to live is determined by a hospital "bean counter" who decides that your mother's life is not based upon a "Will To Live" but an ability to pay her bill? What about a baby, not born, but already set for murder in the womb — not because the mother is pro-life or pro-death but because "the law" says the unborn baby's life is expendable because the baby's genes are determined to be part of a class or a group or a race or of an ethnicity which pre-programs the child, un-born, to death?

America is being murdered in small pieces. It is seeing its values, its life, its culture disemboweled with the finesse of a skilled surgeon. And it is America's poll takers and its legislators and its uncaring, disinterested, and uninvolved who are handling the scalpel. Take the scalpel away. Contact www.Terrisfight.org to join the Foundation's battle to educate America about the right to live. Go to Terri's Day on www.kevinfobbs.com to learn about new updates on Terri's Day and the event to celebrate the Culture of life.

So on Independence Day and Independence month of July will we have any Americans who will sign up and join the Culture of Life movement in their community? Even if it is to sign a pledge, hand out a flyer, become aware of legislators and judicial candidates who have agreed to stand firm for the Culture of Life — a crusade that is based not only upon the life of Terri Schiavo's legacy but equally crucial based also upon the legacy of the right to live, to defend our culture and the life of its values.

Terri's Day is not the end of a national movement but the beginning of a national contract with itself to stand for a future that our nation can guarantee for its children and for a culture that will insure life. The right to live will be Terri's legacy — our legacy... one nation under God. Join us in your homes, on your family picnics, out camping and celebrating July 14th and 15th ... Our American Culture of Life belongs to each and every one of us... We must protect it. Let's celebrate together.

Kevin Fobbs is President of National Urban Policy Action Council (NuPac), a non-partisan civic and citizen-action organization that focuses on taking the politics out of policy to secure urban America's future one neighborhood, one city, and one person at a time. View NuPac on the web at www.nupac.info. Kevin Fobbs is a regular contributing columnist for the Detroit News. He is also the host of The Kevin Fobbs Show: go to: ,www.kevinfobbs.com. To contact him go to: kevin@kevinfobbs.com.

© Copyright 2006 by Kevin Fobbs http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/fobbs/060529

[T'wit]

>> Warfarin is scary stuff

Very, very profitable for the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. I am so proud of my native land, naming a rat poison for itself!

[8mmMauser]

But good cheddar

[T'wit]

>> And he is supposed to be one of ours...

The arrogance of power.

I have a different question. How can a judge be called on to rule on philosophical and religious theories in Academe? Is he omniscient? Can he look down from Mt. Olympus and say, "This is true, this is not"?

Evolution is truly installed as America's official religion, by edict.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Face it, the whole system down to the meter maids has run amok. No wonder people can't get a fair trial.

[8mmMauser]

North Country Gazette keeps up the pressure on Judge Greer, a favorite analogy, from Lady MacBeth...

Is there blood on the hands of George Greer too, the Pinellas County court judge who doggedly refused to allow any new medical tests for the brain injured Terri Schindler Schiavo and ignored the Vatican, Congress, White House and U.S. Marshals to insure that disabled woman die?

It's doubtful that he'll have any conscience attack, he's too busy making jokes about her death as his takes his ghoulish show on the road along with all the Schiavo principals but yet he claims how unbiased he was and impartial while following the rule of law--Greer's law.

COMMENTARY - Out Damn Spot!

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(this includes Ohioan from Florida's ping list, update to May 17.)



Terri on the road to recovery before the second stage began.

[8mmMauser]

Colby, more than just a cheese...

One more person to watch, maybe, a proponent of the "right to die kill"

Colby, who will speak today in Lakeland, uses last year's showdown over Schiavo as a starting point for his just-published book "Unplugged: Reclaiming Our Right To Die in America." He served as lead attorney on the only right-to-die case ever to reach the U.S. Supreme Court.

End-of-Life Issue Creates Controversy

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[8mmMauser]

Commentary from Nancy Levant of American Chronicle...

Well folks, our mindless insistence to vote following TV’s lead, and to vote for the only people who can afford air time, has brought you and yours all the way down, according to our representatives, to the level of mental incompetents. Now, you will receive your representative government’s prescribed list of interventions. As mental incompetents, regional governors and electronic voting machines will ensure that you, in your current condition, will not vote. Your forthcoming Real ID and your current Patriot Act will assure that you have no rights, and that you are traceable as incompetents. Sub-dermal chipping will guarantee your complete control.

As private property is to be confiscated in one way or another, you will be “relocated” into deed-restricted/planned communities (if you are a good and manageable serf) or you will be “relocated” into a civilian labor camp and put to work under the control of one paramilitary system or another. If you are highly uncontrollable or an undesirable, such as Terri Schiavo, you may be “humanely” disposed of, much like Terri Schiavo.

Betraying Country, Self, and Future

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[T'wit]

We have this controversy only because those who advocate a right to die do not exercise their right and leave the rest of us alone.

Hypocrites. They aren't really talking about a right to die for themselves. They are almost always talking about someone else's "right" to be disposed of by the proper authorities. Nazi doctrine redux.

[floriduh voter]

CRIST SLAMS GALLAGHER but (looks like the St. Pete Times slams him back) CHARLIE CRIST defers everything! He never makes decisions.

http://www.sptimes.com/2006/06/04/State/Crist_slams_state_ins.shtml

[floriduh voter]

Crist panders re: abortion. It just depends who he's talkin to at the time. He's a phony liberal running as a republican.

http://www.sptimes.com/2006/06/04/State/On_abortion__Crist_s_.shtml

I'm thrilled that the St. Pete Times doesn't seem to care for Crist. He must have had a run-in with them when he lived in St. Pete. Remember he's a lawyer and if he ever ticked off the Times, they'll not let him live it down.)

[T'wit]

>> The key issue in the Terri Schiavo case was what Terri would have wanted, Terri's wish. Don't you think that it would have been her desire to undergo that brain image test...

Excellent point! Of course it would never occur to her loving husband or to Judas Greer, who were 100% focused on killing her.

[T'wit]

>> Colby, more than just a cheese...

No way! Cheese is good. Colby is just cheesy.

[AppyPappy]

T'wit

Whassup? I thought about you this weekend when we were in DC. I was telling the kids the story you told me in your car on the way back from MFJ. Ya know. The Wilbur Mills story in the Basin. They thought I made it up.

Was her name Fannie Fox?

[floriduh voter]

The catch is that THEY GO THROUGH YOUR SAVINGS, THEY PROFIT FROM YOUR HOUSE AND THEN THEY (the death care lawyers) HAVE YOU KILLED.

The patient-victim doesn't even get the opportunity to profit from their house. The price is low balled, then sold to real estate agents/lawyers who are in the loop and these profiteers sell YOUR HOUSE for a lot of money.

Trusts set up in Florida to protect wards are anything but trusts. They are money laundering networks. If the operators of the trust is challenged, what is their rebuttal? "I had a Court Order." That's how it's done.

State sponsored robberies followed by murder.

[T'wit]

Yes. She spelled it Fanny Foxe and was called the "Agentine firecracker." Your kids can undoubtedly find the story on the Internet if they don't believe it. Police found Fanny and Wilbur Mills splashing around in the tidal basin. Wilbur, head of the House Ways and Means Committee -- i.e., head of the money committee for the entire government -- was about the second most powerful politician in the world. (Another fine product of Arkansas, btw.) You learn something about government when you find a guy with his responsibilities drunk out of his gourd playing very strange water games with a coochy-coo stripper.

[floriduh voter]

Sheriff Coates isn't as STUPID as Everett Rice but he was his right hand man before Rice went to Tallahassee to vote for Terri to die. This is like a long running series like DALLAS. It doesn't seem real because it's so hard to fathom that all these agencies have gotten away with robbing Terri, holding her hostage, killing her, giving Michael Schiavo a job and the coverup goes on at every level, federal, state and local.

It is the Twilight Zone and Sheriff Rice wants to be Florida's AG and liar Crist wants to be Florida's Governor.

With that scenario, it can only get worse here.

[floriduh voter]

The prez quit calling the human smugglers "coyotes". He's trying to fuzz up/soften the illegal immigration CRISIS even more.

It is very much like with Terri when her true condition was kept fuzzy by the MSM.

[floriduh voter]

The party of death with help from RINOS killed her.

[floriduh voter]

Look at ALL THE PROTECTION BY LAW ENFORCEMENT not to protect Terri but to make certain that SHE WAS MURDERED.

The Courts don't get it but they can sure dish it out.

Judge Greer ordered TERRI TO DIE OF STARVATION AND DEHYDRATION. Did the Courts not realize what huge mistakes they make every day?

Well, Greer didn't make a mistake. He was either bribed, probably blackmailed or BOTH in Pinellas County. He's so incompetent, I can see him being a victim of blackmail.

Greer's wife Patricia said "It's not nice to pick on a person with a disability".

But, as long as the paychecks and bennies keep coming in, it's okay for her husband to MURDER A PERSON WITH A DISABILITY.

www.judgegeorgegreer.com

(the blind sheik is proud that he's an incompetent scumbag).

[floriduh voter]

BREAKING: The bikini strangler was from Tampa. Tampa let him off of a thirty year sentence EARLY.

How dare Charlie Crist say that crime is down. Florida murderers are outsourcing to other states!

CLEMSON MURDERER FROM TAMPA (no surprise). The criminal and civil justice system in Florida is broken which we already knew.

Will Crist make a statement? Shucks no. He'll defer.